JK Rowling: the witch who refuses to burn (medieval hunting sports)

[C C]

https://youtu.be/GCCEsfIHzMc

INTRO: If you’d have said 10 years ago that JK Rowling would soon become a hate figure among the cultural elites, people would have thought you were mad. Her Harry Potter series is beloved the world over. She is immaculately liberal-left. Why would she ever be demonised by the great and good?

Well, because she believes in biological sex and single-sex spaces – views held by the vast majority of the population, but deemed ‘transphobic’ by gender ideologues. Here, Lauren Smith explains how intolerant transgender activists pulled off the most vicious character assassination of the woke era – and commends Rowling for refusing to betray her principles. Watch, share and let us know what you think.

JK Rowling: the witch who refuses to burn ... https://youtu.be/GCCEsfIHzMc

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[Magical Realist]

Well, for someone who claims to not be transphobic and totally loving and accepting of transgender persons, she sure continues to obsessively rant and tweet a firestorm of controversy around herself. There is obviously SOMEthing about it she hates....a whole lot, as demonstrated by a plethora of moralistic screeds against everything from unisex restrooms, hormone therapy for teens, complicated pronouns, cross dressing rapists, trans holocaust victims, and the ever ubiquitous but never specific "pro-trans movement" that is out to kill her.

It's exactly like when homophobes used to find endless different excuses for their hatred of gays and lesbians--they molest kids, they threaten the sanctity of marriage, they spread aids and STDs, they threaten free speech, they raise dysfunctional kids, they prance around in sexually explicit parades, etc. That's the thing about something you secretly hate--it constantly feeds itself with a litany of ever-changing excuses and rationalizations for itself, even when nobody asked you, just to keep its flames stoked and burning. So just admit it JK. You flat out hate trans people. You can't stand them. They totally disgust you and you wish they didn't exist. Otherwise like with most people on this planet it wouldn't bother you in the least.

"J.K. Rowling’s supporters frequently claim the author has never actually said or done anything transphobic. It’s a position you can see on social media, in the pages of the New York Times, and even on a new podcast with Rowling herself.

It’s also an easily debunked lie.

Some of this confusion around Rowling’s opinions can be cleared up with a definition of transphobia, which doesn’t — despite the “phobia” — solely mean fear of trans people, but, per Merriam-Webster, also an “irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against transgender people.” (In fact, Merriam-Webster’s own examples list cites multiple articles related to Rowling.) Rowling can say she likes everyone, but she has displayed that prejudice time and again. She’s also peddled explicit fear of trans people, particularly trans women, insisting they’re an inherently dangerous threat to cisgender women..."

https://www.vox.com/culture/23622610/jk-...ontroversy

[Syne]

Or... she's just a woman who wants to feel safe in women's spaces and has a natural feminine sympathy for the mistreatment of children.

And you're just projecting your own hate, rationalized by your own persecution complex and illustrated by your self-serving comparison to gay issues.

[Magical Realist]

Or... she's just a woman who wants to feel safe in women's spaces and has a natural feminine sympathy for the mistreatment of children.

How are children being mistreated by transgender persons? Source?

[Syne]

Or... she's just a woman who wants to feel safe in women's spaces and has a natural feminine sympathy for the mistreatment of children.

How are children being mistreated by transgender persons? Source?

By "gender-affirming care" (read sterilization/mutilation) of minors.

[Magical Realist]

By "gender-affirming care" (read sterilization/mutilation) of minors.

LOL So transgenders are mistreating transgender teens by affirming their gender identity? How is that mistreating anyone? Is JK Rowling now the expert on what transgender teens want?

[Syne]

Giving sterilization-inducing puberty-blockers or mutilating the genitalia of a minor happens before they are adults, capable of giving informed consent.

Or are you claiming children can consent?!

[Magical Realist]

"Puberty blockers” (or simply “blockers”) are a type of medication which can temporarily pause puberty and are fully reversible.

For transgender and non-binary youth who are aware of their gender at a young age, going through puberty can cause intense distress and dysphoria, as it leads their body to develop into a gender that is not theirs —including in ways that are irreversible, or only reversible with surgery. For example, teenage transgender boys who do not have access to blockers will have to go through a puberty that includes growing breasts and later in life will require surgery.

In these instances, puberty blockers may be prescribed by doctors early in puberty, in consultation with the child, their parents and therapists, in order to temporarily stop the body from going through the unwanted physical and developmental changes of puberty. They are used to give youth time to continue exploring their gender identity before potentially moving on to more permanent transition-related care when they are older.

Puberty blockers are safe. They were approved by the FDA to treat precocious puberty in cisgender youth in 1993, citing minimal side effects and high efficacy; 30 years later, puberty blockers remain the gold standard treatment for precocious puberty in cisgender youth. All youth who are taking puberty blockers — cisgender or transgender — are monitored by their care team for any side effects or complications.

Puberty blockers are fully reversible. If a person stops taking puberty blockers, normal puberty will resume, with minimal long-term effects, if any. While there may be some loss of bone mineral density, this can be easily addressed with calcium and vitamin D supplements. Previous research has also shown that cisgender youth who take puberty blockers for precocious puberty have normal fertility and reproductive function.

Puberty blockers can also be life-saving: Previous studies have found that transgender and non-binary youth who are able to receive puberty blockers report positive psychosocial impacts, including increased well-being and decreased depression. Other recent studies have found that receipt of puberty blockers can dramatically reduce risk of suicidality — in some cases by over 70% — among transgender youth, compared to those who were unable to access desired treatment."


"Transgender and non-binary people typically do not have gender-affirming surgeries before the age of 18. In some rare exceptions, 16 or 17 year-olds have received gender-affirming surgeries in order to reduce the impacts of significant gender dysphoria, including anxiety, depression, and suicidality. However, this is limited to those for whom the surgery is deemed clinically necessary after discussions with both their parents and doctors, and who have been consistent and persistent in their gender identity for years, have been taking gender-affirming hormones for some time, who have undergone informed consent discussions and have approvals from both their parents and doctors, and who otherwise meet standards of care criteria (such as those laid out by WPATH).

In all cases, regardless of the age of the patient, gender-affirming surgeries are only performed after multiple discussions with both mental health providers and physicians (including endocrinologists and/or surgeons) to determine if surgery is the appropriate course of action."--- https://www.hrc.org/resources/get-the-fa...rming-care

[Syne]

Biased LGBT source versus:

Transgender individuals who undergo gender-affirming medical or surgical therapies are at risk for infertility. Suppression of puberty with gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist analogs (GnRHa) in the pediatric transgender patient can pause the maturation of germ cells, and thus, affect fertility potential. Testosterone therapy in transgender men can suppress ovulation and alter ovarian histology, while estrogen therapy in transgender women can lead to impaired spermatogenesis and testicular atrophy. The effect of hormone therapy on fertility is potentially reversible, but the extent is unclear.
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6626312/


Puberty blockers (gonadotrophin-releasing hormone analogues) are not available to children and young people for gender incongruence or gender dysphoria because there is not enough evidence of safety and clinical effectiveness.

From around the age of 16, young people with a diagnosis of gender incongruence or gender dysphoria who meet various clinical criteria may be given gender-affirming hormones alongside psychosocial and psychological support.

These hormones cause some irreversible changes, such as:

breast development (caused by taking oestrogen)
breaking or deepening of the voice (caused by taking testosterone)

Long-term gender-affirming hormone treatment may cause temporary or even permanent infertility.
- https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/gender-dys...treatment/


Although the treatments are considered safe, they are not risk-free. Most transgenders become infertile as a result of the hormonal switching medications. Estrogens diminish sperm production in males, and testosterone’s cessation of menses can cause polycystic ovaries in women; these changes usually lead to infertility.
- https://endocrinenews.endocrine.org/bloc...der-youth/

[Magical Realist]

Well here's an excerpt from the highly reputable and science-based medical journal "The Lancet" about puberty blockers for trans adolescents..

"More fear is stoked by rhetoric about a malevolent threat to children. Social conservatives in the USA, UK, and Australia frame gender-affirming care as child abuse and medical experimentation. This stance wilfully ignores decades of use of and research about puberty blockers and hormone therapy: a collective enterprise of evidence-based medicine culminating in guidelines from medical associations such as the Endocrine Society and American Academy of Pediatrics. Puberty blockers are falsely claimed to cause infertility and to be irreversible, despite no substantiated evidence. The dominance of the infertility narrative, usually focused on child-bearing ability, perhaps reveals more about conservatives' commitment to women's role as child-bearers. Puberty blockers are framed as pushing children into taking hormones, whereas the time they provide allows for conversations with health providers and parents on different options. Gender transition involves many decisions over a long time, and those who take hormones do so because they are trans. Contrary to claims of a new phenomenon, trans youth have always existed; historians show they have sought trans medicine since it became possible: the 1930s in the USA.

Focusing on potential harms ignores the fact that wellbeing is broader than physical health alone. The harms to wellbeing posed by prohibiting care are huge. Being a marginalised group (<2% of US youth), trans youth already experience the stress of discrimination and stigmatisation. They have high rates of depression, anxiety, and suicide: almost double the rates of suicide ideation of their cis peers. As Laura Baams discusses in her Comment, puberty blockers reduce suicidality. Removing these treatments is to deny life. Moreover, whereas the bills focus on medical treatments, the care trans youth receive is far wider in scope. Those seeking care typically also see social workers and psychiatrists, and much of health providers' work involves listening, talking, and setting up support in their families, schools, and communities. Health providers also discuss with them the idea that gender is something we “do” in social practice and can take many forms. Indeed, some choose social transition without medical treatment, and it is useful to remember that the notion of gender dysphoria perpetuates the historical pathologisation of gender diversity. Challenging the current social construction of male–female will undoubtedly ease trans youths' lives, reducing the pressure of rigid definitions. But alongside these social aspects is a pressing need for medical care."---
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanch...5/fulltext